Yves de Lessines was a Cistercian monk of the Cambron Abby in Orval Belgium. He was old at this time and entered the brotherhood late in his life; he was an intelligent man who spent a great deal of time writing not only theological works but also poetry and was very involved in the arts. He was in charge of the farms and agriculture of the Cambron Abby.
Brother Yves was made aware of a conflict in the brotherhood of the warrior monks. The leadership of the Templar's was in denial of information that their informants were providing them. One of their informants the Count of Flanders was summoned by King Philippe on the 26th of March, 1307. The purpose of the meeting, six months before the infamous date of October 13, 1307 was to inform the count of King Philippe’s plans to arrest the Templar’s throughout Christendom, all at once, and to request the counts co-operation in this event.
The unusual part of this plan is that France and Flanders were at war with each other. The count must have held a big chip on his shoulder because a short five years earlier the count, Robert de Bethume and his father Gui de Dampierre, were imprisoned by King Philippe, following the Peace of Athis and the King seized the southern part of Flanders. They were only released from prison when France was defeated on July 11th, 1302 at Courtrai.
The warrior monks had been pre warned six months prior to the fateful date in 1307, but they didn’t realize the gravity of the conspiracy. But the Templar’s had indeed been pre warned, and when at day break on Friday the 13, 1307 all throughout France and certain other European nations the Knights who lived by the Latin Rule written by Bernard of Clairveau, were out of their garb, without their weapons, and were waiting for the soldiers, and went peacefully like lambs into the den of wolves.
The knights are never out of their garb, they are never without their weapons, and they absolutely never surrender, they always fight to the death, that is why their reputation as fierce warriors has preceded them for the last two hundred years and they gained that reputation through all six of the crusades. This is the Latin rule, which also regulates how many horses each Knight would maintain, how much staff, when they could speak which was never when taking meals, there were initially 76 rules and that increased to 160 rules over the years.
King Philippe had three sons only his middle son held the respect of the King, his eldest son Louis X le Hutin, married Marguerite de Bourgogne, while his third son Charles the IV, was married to her sister. They were both the daughters of the duke of Burgundy, Robert II.
Although the King held his eldest and third son’s in contempt they were never the less Princes of France and thus attended functions at the palace and attended the Kings council. This was the source of the leak, as pillow talk goes, when the eldest son Louis, spent time with his unfaithful wife, giving her the blow by blows of every detail going on in the palace, to include future covert operations, such as the pending arrests of the Templars.
This information of course was detailed to her parents in every minute detail, her mother Mahaut d’ Artois the Duchess of Burgundy, was also very interested in this because she had a special relationship with the local Templar precatory because they were her bankers she was prevalent in the linen and tapestry trade and the Templars were very prominent in the transportation of these goods not only in caravans but also with their merchant shipping fleet.
The Cistercian was frequently in conflict with the Disciples of the Dominican Monks or also known as the Domini-canines or the” Dogs of the Lord.” The Dominicans were not confined to Monasteries but roamed the countryside like stray dogs. The preaching and imprecations of the Inquisitors have become known as the barking of big, ferocious, ugly, slavering and flea-bitten dogs.
Brother Yves, a brother of the warrior monks was approached by a Brother Cistercian who was a Flemish Knight. He conveyed a message from the Templar Order through the network of spies they had in both the Palace of King Philippe the Fair and the Vatican they knew that they were going to be arrested, dismantled and closed by the Church of Rome which was by now a puppet arm of the Kings Palace. They knew that the Dogs of the Lord would come knocking and the order needed to make preparations.
Eighty years prior to the demise of the order, Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Emperor of Germany, who lived in the first half of the 13thcentury, and was known to history as less a Prince than a Butcher. Frederick was engaged in turmoil with the Vatican. His Grandfather Frederick I had an “anti-pope” elected. The German clergy referred to the Roman Pope as the Antichrist from Rome!
The Vatican’s Pope’s were primarily elected by the Mafia families of Italy, and the Pope usually managed to have Sicily attack the Empires of the Baltic Nations. Having an opportunity that presented itself Frederick I arranged a Marriage of his son Henri to Constance of Sicily. Constance was the sister of King Guillaume of Sicily, with the marriage; the Kingdoms of the Vatican were surrounded by the Baltic countries to the north and Napoleons lands to the south.
This put the Vatican in a very preposterous position, to add insult to injury, Queen Constance, decided to give birth in public, under a tent, in the public square of Jesi, near Ancona. The Vatican put out the rumor that the Queen had lain with a butcher. The Vatican went on to say that the “thing born at Jesi” was but a bastard of the Sicilian Queen, and had no rights to the Empire of Sicily.
There wasn’t any less prestigious job in the middle ages than that of a butcher. Throughout his life Frederick II was known as the butcher’s son! In reality he was low, mean, unpleasant, and unscrupulous. He was attempting to pose as a distinguished gentleman but he wasn’t.
The men of the meat trade like to remind him he was the son of a butcher. He had left on the sixth crusade and attacked the people he was supposed to protect, history shows that the pilgrims revolted against Frederick at that point, the pilgrims began to riot and to prevent the pilgrims from tearing him apart he took refuge in the fortress of St Jean D' Arc.
He wanted to retreat to his starting point to escape by sea but could not find any soldiers to protect him. Even his own troops abandoned him he was under siege in the fortress where he remained for several months.
He remained in the fortress until the Knights Templar finally came to his rescue. The only route from the fortress to the seaport went through the village and right past the meat market where the butchers were waiting for him. They covered him with waste and excrement, foul smelling and furious he entered the safety of a Templar ship.
Later back in Sicily he started a smear campaign against the Templar’s as a means of showing his gratitude. Eighty years later King Philippe the fair, took up where the Frederick the ll, had failed. The Templar's had learned their lesson with King Frederick II, and held all kings in distain.
King Philippe IV of France was deeply in debt to the Templar’s and on Friday 13th October 1307 accused them of heresy and had them arrested in France. Many were tortured to obtain confessions of heresy. This was a way to avoid paying back debts, and by confiscating further Templar assets Philippe was able to make further money. Pope Clement under pressure from King Philippe then issued the bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae on November 22, 1307, instructing all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templar’s and seize their assets.
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